Manager Business Product Owner

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Planning Strategy & Capabilities

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland, Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Dublin, Ireland, Geel, Antwerp, Belgium, Latina, Italy, Leiden, Netherlands, Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at

We are searching for the best talent for Business Product Manager - Planning Flows and Integration to work in our Global Process Excellence (GPEX) team. This hybrid position can be located at any Innovative Medicine location.

The Business Product Manager - Planning Flows and Integration will be part of the OMP Master Data team and be responsible for ensuring that materials in the OMP advanced planning system are fully plannable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Become business expert on planning flows in OMP

• Partner with NPI, Transfer Planning and Value Chain Management teams on new flow development

• Work with Finance and Tax specialists on flow approval

• Work with Planning Teams as new flows are implemented to ensure correct signals

• Proactively bring up issues where flows are causing a risk to our IBP cycle

• Manage functionality in OMP to facilitate cross system flows

• OMP Vendor mapping

• OMP Transport Lanes

• Global Brand Attributes

• Work closely with EMS and IMSC Master Data teams to ensure cross system codes are correctly linked

• Coordinate changes to Brand naming during product life cycle

• Work as part of the GPEX Data team on OMP Master Data and Data Reporting

• Develop solutions to validate data in OMP to ensure planning signals are flowing correctly

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in a quantitative field with a preference for Masters or MBA

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience

• Clear understanding of upstream and downstream Supply Chain planning processes, that are required across ERP and Planning Systems in a Pharmaceutical business

• Ability to build strong relationships with partners across pillars of the business

• Excellent written and verbal communication to clearly articulate data requirements, policies, and issues to both technical and non-technical partners

• Capability to analyze data trends, identify potential data issues, and develop alternate solutions to address data inconsistency

• Ability to be an inspiring leader, focusing on Business agility, with a fail-fast mentality

• Anticipates and communicates the need for change and innovation in an empathetic & influential manner to ensure that the business responds to demands in an agile, positive, proactive way

Preferred:

• Experience working in one or more of the following Supply Chain areas: Planning, Quality, Deliver, Source/Procurement, Make/Manufacturing, and/or Technology

• Experience with advanced analytics solutions (e.g., Alteryx, Databricks, Power Automate, or equivalent)

• Experience with Intelligent Automation, Process Mining, and/or Scenario Planning solutions

• Knowledge of a broad set of internal and external business drivers and financial indicators across enterprise in order to prioritize digital products that drive business goals & capabilities

Other:

• Requires proficiency in English (written and verbal) to communicate effectively and professionally

• Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel

• Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option for two remote workdays each week

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